Product Description: The indispensible handbook every manager needs by their side. This complex subject is broken down into clear and accessible sections covering everything from managing your own job and career to managing people and information, Brilliant Checklists for Managers will ensure you never leave anything to chance again! This book tells you everything you need to know, everything you need to think about, and everything you need to do to be a successful manager – before you even know it yourself...read more

A reference for managers. This book deals with the key issues, sharpening your grasp of the situation and making well-informed decisions.

Explains the basic concepts of statistics, including sampling, distribution, significance, and common statistical relationships

Product Description: This classic book uses words and diagrams, rather than formulas and equations, to help readers understand what statistics is, and how to think statistically. It focuses on the ideas behind statistics only; readers are not required to perform any calculations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Professor Rowntree's book has been a bestseller since 1970, and has been used by over 250,000 students. Now thoroughly revised and up-to-date, this edition of LEARN HOW TO STUDY includes information gleaned from the very latest research of study techniques...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fully adapted to reflect the education system in the UK, this book gives hints, advice and techniques for taking notes in lectures, from textbooks and even on-line. It also shows how to organize study time to get the best results in the shortest amount of time.

Product Description: Practical and in A-Z format, this text provides a list of what should be looked for when setting up and managing a materials-based learning programme; setting up learner support systems; and designing courses and learning materials which are useful in getting the user started.

Product Description: This package describes the benefits of using audio cassettes in the teaching process, particularly for open learning. It includes a free cassette which takes teachers or trainers through each step of creating and recording their own course material.

Product Description: This practical handbook guides teachers in open and distance learning through the key phases of planning and developing materials for coursework. Each phase involves a specific sequence of development tasks, supported by background information, examples and checklists.

Product Description: This study identifies eight areas essential to the understanding of open and distance learning. Each area is explored with case studies and a range of applications in higher education and training. Activities for readers and points for reflection are highlighted in each chapter.

Product Description: This practical guide offers advice on what learners should expect from an open learning course. The author suggests ways in which readers can choose the best programme to suit their needs, get maximum support from tutors, develop skills and get the best possible examination results...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to managing the boss and surviving the system.

Product Description: Assistance for teachers, lecturers, trainers and instructors in producing effective self-instructional material. The process is considered in two stages, from formulating the aims and objectives of the material to evaluating and improving it.

Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on to consider the five key dimensions of assessment:* why assess?* what to assess?* how to assess?* How to interpret?* How to respond?Having guided us through the many conceptual and terminological traps, the book ends constructively with seventeen proposals for making assessment work in the best interests of our students. (view table of contents)

Presents an easy-to-use primer that uses practical, everyday examples to teach the elements of probability, in an approach that requires little math background

A systematic program for the development of study skills includes advice on writing papers, reading textbooks, taking notes, and preparing for tests

Product Description: Like every profession, education has its own jargonóthat special language of words peculiar to itself, and of everyday words used in peculiar ways. Even people within the profession may be uneasy about terms used by people in branches other than their own, and certainly the newcomer or "interested layman" can be completely flummoxed...read more

Product Description: Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on to consider the five key dimensions of assessment:* why assess?* what to assess?* how to assess?* How to interpret?* How to respond?Having guided us through the many conceptual and terminological traps, the book ends constructively with seventeen proposals for making assessment work in the best interests of our students...read more